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Verb: throw up
  1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    "After drinking too much, the students threw up";
    - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick, disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, vom [informal], keck [informal], hurl [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], chunder [Brit, informal], boke [UK, dialect], boak [UK, dialect]

Derived forms: thrown up, throwing up, threw up, throws up

Type of: egest, eliminate, excrete, pass

Encyclopedia: Throw up